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May. 16th, 2023 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavjust had the funniest interaction where a chummy $SVP figuratively leaned around the corner and asked me how the heck i had a company-wide "profile photo" that was very clearly self-illustrated, and not like, the standard "first day mug shot photo"
he asked, and i quote, "because i have several people who would love one" (read: cuz he wants one too lol)
please note that i'm literally the only one other than $CEO who has a custom company wide icon :'D (which is his favorite college football coach because of course). these days for most coworkers, changing the company-wide photo/icon would entail a slap on the wrist by IT/HR because they want to be ~*consistent* ~ (and admittedly i could see a jerk really pushing the boundaries by having a nsfw/controversial icon), but i get the feeling because (a) i've been here long enough, and (b) people kinda expect designers to be Quirky(tm), they let this slide.
anyway i had to break it to the poor $SVP that i actually ... don't know how to change it these days ... because i drew/put it on the profile when everything-security and unofficial rule-wise was way more lax before covid; these days everything is extremely locked down. and i think given a bug of various systems merging (office 365/outlook/webex) since then, my illustrated icon actually accidentally overrode anything official, so i'm basically stuck with the current illustration LOL.
oh, corporate shenanigans ~
he asked, and i quote, "because i have several people who would love one" (read: cuz he wants one too lol)
please note that i'm literally the only one other than $CEO who has a custom company wide icon :'D (which is his favorite college football coach because of course). these days for most coworkers, changing the company-wide photo/icon would entail a slap on the wrist by IT/HR because they want to be ~*consistent* ~ (and admittedly i could see a jerk really pushing the boundaries by having a nsfw/controversial icon), but i get the feeling because (a) i've been here long enough, and (b) people kinda expect designers to be Quirky(tm), they let this slide.
anyway i had to break it to the poor $SVP that i actually ... don't know how to change it these days ... because i drew/put it on the profile when everything-security and unofficial rule-wise was way more lax before covid; these days everything is extremely locked down. and i think given a bug of various systems merging (office 365/outlook/webex) since then, my illustrated icon actually accidentally overrode anything official, so i'm basically stuck with the current illustration LOL.
oh, corporate shenanigans ~
